Poison-cabinet



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r E. G. KUBLER.

POISON CABINET.

Patented Feb. 23, 1 892.

W1 TNESSS- JNVENTOR, EELLESLUWRIE- EDMUND GJGJBLER.

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E. G. KUBLBR.

I POISON UABINBT.

No. 469,349. v Patented Feb. 23, 1892 WITNESSES- .EELLE 5L UVYRIE D UND EcKUEL'ER. I W i A TTORNEY.

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E. G. KUBLER. POISON CABINET.

No. 469,349. Patented Feb. 23, 1892.

, W1 TNESSES- JNVENTOR, .EELLE 5L swam- 1 E n MUNJJ GLKUELEI UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND GEORGE KUBLER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

POISON-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 69,349, dated. February 23, 1892.

Application filed December 14, 1891. Serial No. 415,317- (No model.) Patented in Germany February 22, 1891, No. 58,564. and in France April 9, 1891, No. 212,653.

T0 or. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMOND GEORGE KUB- LER, of Akron, Ohio, temporarily residing at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poison-Cabinets, (patented in Germany, No. 58,564, February 22, 1891, and in France, No. 212,658, April 9, 1891,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to cabinets for holding bottles containing .poisons such as aroused by druggists, and has for its object to prevent more than one bottle being withdrawn at a time and to prevent the accidental lnterchange or misplacement of the bottles in the cabinets, for which purpose the cases of the different bottles in the cabinet are controlled by electro-magnetic locking devices and the poison-bottles are so made that they will only fit their respective seats or places in the chest or cabinet, and then in their proper seats are made to act on electric-circuit breakers, the electro magnetic mechanism being so arranged and combined that so long as. a bottle is absent another cannot be withdrawn and if a bottle be misplaced an alarm will continue to be sounded to draw attention to the fact.

To the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction,

combination, and arrangement of parts here-' inafterdescribed,andthen specificallypointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Inthe accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-letters indicate like parts in the different views, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a druggists bottle, the lower part being broken away to more clearly show the positions of the relative parts Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, the lower part also being in section for the same purpose; Fig. 3, a plan of the bottle-seat; Fig. 4., a plan of the bottom of a bottle bearing a designatingsymbol thereon; Fig. 5, a section of a drug gists cabinet at the line a: w of Fig. 6; Fig. 6, a front elevation of a druggists cabinet containing my improvement; Fig. '7, a section at the line Y Y of Fig. 8, showing a modification of the form shown in Fig. 5; Fig.8, a front elevation of the same; Fig. 9, a diagram of the line connections of Fig. 5.

The cabinet W has a separate compartment for each bottle 13, each compartment being closed by a hinged flap-door G, preferably labeled to correspond to the bottle contained, an opening being left by the door not reaching quite to the bottom of the compartment, as shown in the drawings, so that when the door G is shut the label of the bottle behind it will be visible. The spring 25, which presses against the lever L, fixed to the door, causes the door G to open immediately upon the withdrawing of the bolt I-I, attached to the armature by an electro-magnet K, by the magnet overcoming the spring 70. The bottom of the bottle is molded with the special letter, figure, sign, or other inequality of surface, which fits into the correspondinglyformed seat A, so that no bottle will fit into the seat of another. (See Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4c.)

When a bottle is in its proper seat, it depresses a push-plate O, situated in the middle of the seat, whereby contact is broken between the spring 0 and its abutment (Z. All thecontact-springs c are connected by the conductor with the one pole of the battery F, (see Fig. 9,) while the contacts at are connected with the other pole by the conductor cl, the electric bell E being included in the circuit of d, (as also the eleetro-magnet P, fora purpose hereinafter described) so that the bell E will be sounded immediately upon the removal of a bottle from its seat and will not cease ringing until all the bottles are replaced in their proper seats.

In front of each door G there is a button J, which when depressed closes the circuit j j, supposing all the contacts M m and the contacts S Q to be closed, whereby the corresponding electro-magnet K is excited, as hereinbefore mentioned, withdraws the locking-bolt H, and allows the door G to spring open. The contacts M m are'in series in the circuit j, as shown in Fig. 9,and are closed by the closing of the doors G. One pole of the electro-magnet K is connected to the stationary contact S, which receives current through the armature Q, pressed against it by a spring q, mounted in the cabinet. Any pressure on the button J only excites the corresponding electromagnet K, and therefore only allows the door to spring open so long as the electro-magnet P is not excited and the bell E is not ringing.

In other words, no door G can be opened unless all of them are closed and the circuit [0 complete through all of the contacts M on and all of the bottles are in their proper places,

so that it will be therefore impossible to open a door without all of the bottles being in their places. It is likewise impossible to open a door, even though all the bottles are in their right places, if another door be open, since the circuit would be broken at M m.

At a suitable pointof the circuit (Z' a key T may be provided, which so long as it is depressed opens this circuit. The electro-magnet P is not excited and the contact Q S closed, so that should a door G be inadvertently closed without a bottle being placed in its compartment this door may bysimultaneously closing the circuit at the key T and the corresponding button J be made to spring open again. This would be impossible otherwise, the bell ringing during the absence of one bottle and the circuit by which the electro- 0 magnet K is excited being broken between the armature Q and the contact S. This key is placed in a lock accessible only to a preferred person.

In the modification shown in Figs. 7 and 8 5 the doors of the compartments are replaced by fingers or stops V, keyed to a rocking shaft R, carrying an armature O, which is attracted by the electroqnagnet K, (which is in the same circuit as the bell,) so as to oscillate the shaft 0 R by the closing of the circuit 0 (Z consequent on the removal of a bottle from its seat, this oscillation of the shaft R bringing all the fingers V down into operative position above the stoppers of all the bottles, so as to prevent 5 the withdrawal of any other bottle so long as one is absent.

If the shaft is in front of the point where the fingers contact with the stoppers, any attempt to withdraw a bottle wedges the stopper more tightly in place. This modification is not as good as the arrangements previously described with reference to the other figures of this specifieation,but it is within the scope of my invention.

What I claim is-- 1. A poison-cabinet containing bottle-seats of different configuration, in combination with bottles having bases severally conforming to the different seats, substantially as shown and described.

2. A poison-cabinet containing a number of bottle-seats of different configuration, each provided with a circuit-breaker arranged to operate an alarm-bell when closed, and bottles having bases conforming to fit only their respective seats and open said circuit-breaker when properly placed, substantially as shown and described. 1

3. In a poison-cabinet, the combination of a compartment containing a bottle-seat and bottle and a door adapted to be opened by the closing of an electro-magnet circuit and arranged to partially close said compartment and permit the label on the bottle to be readily seen, said door bearing a label of similar import, substantially as shown and described.

at. In a poison-cabinet consisting of a number of compartments, said compartments bein g severally arranged to be closedby swin gin g doors, said doors being arranged to be opened by the closing of an electro-magnetic circult, the combination of a circuit-breaker adapted to break said circuit when one door is opened and render inoperative the remaining cabinet-doors, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a poison-cabinet consisting of a number of compartments, said compartments be ing adapted to be closed by swinging doors, in which said doors are arranged to be opened by the closing of an electromagnetic circuit,

the combination of a bottle and a seat therefor, said seat containing a circuit-breaker arranged in a branch circuit from the main circuit, said branch circuit arranged to be closed and said main circuit to be broken by the removal of said bottle, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a poison-cabinet having a number of compartments closed by swinging doors, said doors arranged to be opened by the closing of a main circuit, the combination of abranch circuit containing circuitbreakers and an eleetro-magnet arranged to operate a vibrating armature, said armature arranged when rocked forward by the action of said magnet to break the main circuit and when released to close it, substantially as shown' and described.

7. In a poison-cabinet consisting of a number of compartments, each arranged to be I closed by swinging doors, said doors arranged circuit-breaker in said branch circuit ar-' ranged when open to break said branch circuit and release said vibrating armature and close said main circu it, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a poison-cabinet having its compartment closed by a swinging door, said door be ing opened by the closing of a main electromagnetic circuit, the combination of a branch circuit containing an electro-magnet provided with a Vibrating armature forming a part of as shown and described, and for the purpose lo the main circuit and a stationary contactspecified.

post also in the main circuit, arranged to en- In testimony whereof I have signed my counter and form electrical connection with name to this specification in the presence of said armature, said armature arranged to be two subscribing Witnesses.

rocked forward by the attraction of said elec- EDMOND GEORGE KUBLER. tro-magnet and break the main circuit and Witnesses:

when released to close the main circuit by RICHARD WVIRTH,

contact with the stationary post, substantially HERMANN DIEHL. 

